Ben Franklin believed that "there is a God, and the most acceptable Service of God was the doing good to Man, that our souls are immortal, and that all crime will be punished and virtue rewarded either here or hereafter." He believes that God does good to all of his people, and that we are not all being held up by God's hand from the "fiery pit of hell." Franklin believes that our souls will live on, instead of the Puritan belief that they will return to God because our souls are in his possession. He also believes t

hat virtue will be rewarded, but in the Puritan belief no one is rewarded because we are all doing the work of God and we are all doomed from the beginning of our birth.

The Puritans and Benjamin Franklin had different ideas about humans and life, but their conflicting ideas both have one thing in common, and that is God. In sum, Ben Franklin religion was derived from the Puritan religion, but it was mostly independent of sanctioned religion. Self-perfection, self-betterment, individualism, and better society would make a society unified. In Ben's philosophy education was truly important, as well as efficiency, progress, advancement, discovery, formal education. Such means would curb ones instincts to better get along with others. In contrast, the Puritan religion is one of strict morals and standards dependent on praying, attendance at church, and complete devotion to God in order to alleviate ones sins. From this comparison of both philosophy we can determine that there

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